Minnesota · SOC 53-0000 · Annual, 2025

Transportation and material moving occupations in Minnesota

Employment and average annual wage for SOC 53-0000 in Minnesota, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.

In 2025, about 228,000 people in Minnesota worked in transportation and material moving occupations (SOC 53-0000), with an average annual wage of $57,200.

Employment in transportation and material moving occupations in Minnesota grew 11.5% from 2020 to 2025. Quarterly values, full occupation detail and projections to 2036 for Minnesota are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 228,000Employment, 2025
  • $57,200Mean annual wage
  • 7.8%Share of Minnesota jobs
  • 0.88Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in transportation and material moving occupations in Minnesota, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 167,300 to 228,000.0100K200K300K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 167,300; 2005 169,600; 2006 169,900; 2007 171,000; 2008 168,900; 2009 158,600; 2010 157,900; 2011 162,300; 2012 164,400; 2013 166,800; 2014 169,300; 2015 172,000; 2016 175,200; 2017 182,300; 2018 196,300; 2019 206,400; 2020 204,500; 2021 214,200; 2022 226,000; 2023 229,100; 2024 230,200; 2025 228,000.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentMean annual wageChange
2025228,009$57,198 0.9%
2024230,200$54,845 0.5%
2023229,076$52,505 1.4%
2022225,971$51,120 5.5%
2021214,162$48,861 4.7%
2020204,527$47,174 0.9%
2019206,396$44,047 5.2%
2018196,271$42,143 7.6%
2017182,327$39,916 4.0%
2016175,242$37,575 1.9%

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

Where these numbers come from

Reading these figures

The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Every occupation value is a DTG estimate: there is no published county or state census of occupations to report, so no value here is marked as published or estimated, and none carries a reliability score. Quarterly figures, county figures, detailed occupations and projected years are in the app.

How these figures are built

DTG’s industry employment fixes how many jobs there are in each industry in the state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ national industry-occupation matrix says how each industry is staffed, and the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey says how many people work in each occupation in the area and what they earn. DTG makes the three agree, so occupation employment sums to the same totals as industry employment. Employment is the annual average; the mean annual wage is the year’s total occupation wages divided by that average employment. The construction is described in full on the occupation data page.

Occupation values are DTG estimates built on OEWS and DTG's industry data, as described in the methodology. Method: Occupation.

Notes

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Transportation and material moving occupations in Minnesota, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for transportation and material moving occupations in Minnesota. A free account shows every detailed occupation in the group, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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